HEXTAC: the Creation of a Manual Extractive Run
Pierre-Étienne Genest, Guy Lapalme, Mehdi Yousfi Monod · 2009
This article presents an attempt to establish an upper bound on purely extractive summarization techniques. Altogether, five human summarizers composed 88 standard and update summaries of the TAC 2009 competition. Only entire sentences of the source documents were selected by the human “extractors”, without modification, to form 100-word summaries. These summaries obtained better scores than any automatic summarization system in both linguistic quality and overall responsiveness, while still doing worse than any human abstractive summarizer. 1